The concept of ‘temporary tax’ helped kill Prop.103. Voters know there is no such thing as a ‘temporary tax’ or Easter Bunny. Voters aren’t stupid and have grown increasingly cynical and suspicious of their city, state and federal governments.

Anonymous

Whether the taxes were temporary or permanent, Denverites proved that they care not for public education by voting down Prop. 103. For that matter, they also proved they don’t care about public education and that their votes can be bought by electing Anne Rowe for DPS school board in District 1. When local papers wanted to take pictures of Anne Rowe out canvassing, she was nowhere to be found because she was out playing tennis (or was she golfing? I’m not sure at this point). Emily Sirota, on the other hand, was out every night knocking on doors herself to talk to voters. I’d rather someone like that representing my children on the school board.

GIMorrison

Anne Rowe was involved in Denver Public Schools for 15 years before she even began running for the Denver School Board giving her quite a head start on her opponent. She started walking District 1 on July 4th weekend, one month before Ms. Sirota posted on her Facebook site that she was beginning to canvass. We heard a lot of noise from one candidate about how many doors she walked including during her appearances on cable TV. The other never counted (or crowed about) how many doors in took to win by a 2-1 margin.

Anonymous

When you are being outspent 3 to 1, as Ms. Sirota was as of Oct. 6, you do anything you can to make yourself more visible and to get yourself heard. She would have been foolish not to take the opportunity to appear on MSNBC. People outside of Denver were interested in just how much money was being poured into the DPS school board elections. Personally, I found the sources of Rowe’s huge campaign contributions to be quite sketchy (as were those of Haynes and Draper Carson).

GIMorrison

Sketchy is the fact that one organization, the Denver Classroom Teachers Association, contributed just over $60,000 to Sirota and nearly $40,000 to Jimenez. This same organization created Delta 4.0, a 527 organization, and funded it to the tune of $42,000.

Joey Bunch has been a reporter for 28 years, including the last 12 at The Denver Post. For various newspapers he has covered the environment, water issues, politics, civil rights, sports and the casino industry.